TY - JOUR
T1 - Sustainable geotourism using digital technologies along a rural georoute in Monsagro (Salamanca, Spain)
AU - Martínez-Graña, A. M.
AU - Serrano, L.
AU - González-Delgado, J. A.
AU - Dabrio, C. J.
AU - Legoinha, P.
N1 - sem pdf conforme despacho
Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (CGL2015-67169-P; CGL2015-69919-R)
PY - 2016/7/21
Y1 - 2016/7/21
N2 - Rural geotourism looks at the natural resources of the territory as a means of promoting a specialized, educational, sustainable tourism. This is an increasingly sought-after activity. This paper presents a rural georoute across a high mountain village, highlighting the remarkable value of the geological heritage of biological trace fossils and physical sedimentary structures exposed on street pavements and façades of houses. A series of tourist georesources were created and implemented: educational and interpretive panels, videos, QR codes, geoapps and games, all of which promote and disseminate the exceptional geological content and the history of the earth through the use of new technologies (smartphones, ipod, etc.). All this is intended as a means to make geotourism a natural tourism, favoring experiences, whilst explaining the natural environment and its temporal and spatial dimensions, offering opportunities for socio-economic development and job creation in rural areas with problems of depopulation.
AB - Rural geotourism looks at the natural resources of the territory as a means of promoting a specialized, educational, sustainable tourism. This is an increasingly sought-after activity. This paper presents a rural georoute across a high mountain village, highlighting the remarkable value of the geological heritage of biological trace fossils and physical sedimentary structures exposed on street pavements and façades of houses. A series of tourist georesources were created and implemented: educational and interpretive panels, videos, QR codes, geoapps and games, all of which promote and disseminate the exceptional geological content and the history of the earth through the use of new technologies (smartphones, ipod, etc.). All this is intended as a means to make geotourism a natural tourism, favoring experiences, whilst explaining the natural environment and its temporal and spatial dimensions, offering opportunities for socio-economic development and job creation in rural areas with problems of depopulation.
KW - Digital geotourism
KW - geological heritage
KW - georoute
KW - sustentability geotourism
KW - tourist georesources
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84980048049&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/17538947.2016.1209582
DO - 10.1080/17538947.2016.1209582
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84980048049
VL - 10
SP - 121
EP - 138
JO - International Journal Of Digital Earth
JF - International Journal Of Digital Earth
SN - 1753-8947
IS - 2
ER -